Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by xtracto » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #126

bomdo wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you comment on the kind of engineers that were interested in getting a job this way? Did you hire/interview any of them?

To start, let me say that I would never do hiring this way now. It was a flawed way to do hiring. We ended up interviewing many of them. They were all very interested in the job. In most cases it was their second or third job out of college. ie. not junior engineers. We got some great engineers out of it. In fact I think most of them are still there a decade later.

> To start, let me say that I would never do hiring this way now. It was a flawed way to do hiring.

I'm curious on why you view it as flawed. At a previous place I worked we had something like that (we had a small puzzle in the code version of the homepage source).

We treated it as one of the several "acquisition channels" we had for our funnel (recruiters, job-boards and job fairs were others). All channels were treated the same with regards to evaluation, so for us it was just an additional way to get candidates.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by StavrosK » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

I'm mostly looking for a technical lead role at the moment.

Location: Greece

Remote: Exclusively

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Django, Postgres/Redis/all the backend stuff, security, devops, some Rust (would like more), hardware design, CAD.

Résumé/CV: https://www.stavros.io/

Email: hireme@mail.stavros.io

I have a few decades' experience in web backends, most of them in Django, and I've been building entire products in my spare time so I've done everything from HTML to devops. I'm alsy very interested in security.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by emptysongglass » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:39 PM UTC

Location: Denmark

  Remote: Sure!

  Willing to relocate: Can't.

  Technologies: OpenShift, K8s, Docker family, all-things-Linux, Vault, Postgres, Nix/NixOS/NixOps, Emacs

  Résumé/CV: Please email.

  Email: emptysongglass@humblemail.com

Dev/SecOps just wrapped up a 3 month commission for a startup to design and build out their OpenShift deployment. I love helping my developers tear down the walls to deployment and ensuring what gets up stays up. Previously designed and implemented the backend for a luxury hotel chain in the States using Nix. Wife is here in Denmark and we can't move at this moment due to Corona and getting her residency here.

12 years Linux sysadmin experience. Master of Fine Arts DFK. I make short films and tend to my homeserver in my spare time.

Send me an email, let's chat!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by FailMore » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:55 PM UTC

Please consider me :) I'm looking for my first engineering role. I'm extremely hard working and I love product focused development. I have recently completed a full-stack Ruby on Rails bootcamp and since then I have designed and built my first webapp: https://taaalk.co. A platform for people to have online conversations, e.g: https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things. The greatest engineering challenges were solved for the Taaalk participants, so if you want to get a sense of what it can do, it would be best to start your own Taaalk.

It's: * Ruby on Rails (running on the Edge branch) * Javascript * AJAX * SCSS * Running on a Hetzner machine (Ubuntu) with an AWS S3 bucket

During my bootcamp my team and I really pushed the boundaries of the final project by building a Rails application that dynamically builds other complex Rails applications: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=4031&v=lUUJoE...

The people who ran the course said "DAMNNNNNN". This is the comment from the course founder who is also a systems engineer:

"Joshua built at Le Wagon an amazing product. The first time that he brought to me the idea of creating a wep app that could create other web apps automatically I thought "This is going to be interesting but really hard to implement". But after two weeks, it was done and working smoothly, that product was one of the best from that batch. Adding to that, Joshua has a really good capacity to learn new topics, he is focused and a nice guy to be around.”

Everyone else from my team has been hired - so you should snap me up!

Location: London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Exaggerated sense of self: Yes

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, AJAX, SCSS, AWS

Résumé/CV: Prior to this I have founded a startup (https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/shufflehub-is-for-when-you...), been a VC at DN Capital and run growth for a suite of bootstrapped startups (50k-1M ARR).

Email: eichler [dot] summers [at] gmail [dot] com

Really? An exaggerated sense of self? No

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by pkb » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

Location: Cork, Ireland

Remote: yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: not possible

Technologies: Linux (Debian, RedHat, CentOS, Gentoo, LFS),

scripting (Python, bash), AWS, Docker,

databases (MySQL, Postgres),

backup (AMANDA, Bacula),

e-mail (Postfix),

virtualization (Xen, VMWare, Virtualbox),

filesystems (OpenAFS, Samba),

DNS (bind), kerberos, FAI, VIM.

Resume/CV: by e-mail on request.

Email: pk.b [at] interia {dot} pl

Linux based sysadmin/devops. Full time Linux user since 1998.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by caseydm » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

  Location: Omaha, NE
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python Django and Flask
  Résumé/CV: https://pycare.com
  Email: casey@pycare.com

I specialize in the upkeep and growth of python web applications. I can help you with:

- Content updates - Performance improvements - Security updates

My service is proactive and designed to keep a Django or Flask web app running in tip-top shape.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

#167

Post by recruitersmv » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:39 PM UTC

Blahah wrote: post #108

jkkkk11 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a cluless recruiter can just copy the code into google without knowing what it is

A lot of recruiters harvest HN for email addresses using commercial software and blanket send annoying and useless emails. A recruiter that decodes brainfuck to get to a gist to read your bio is by definition not clueless.

Why use commercial software when we could use Photon instead? ;)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by pgt » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:39 PM UTC

    Location: Cape Town, South Africa
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: Yes
    Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, Rust, Datomic.
    Résumé/CV: http://petrustheron.com/cv/
    Email: hn@petrus.co.za

Building profitable products since 2004. BEng Electronic Engineering w/Computer Science, Stellenbosch 2009. During lockdown I built this to help bring businesses online post-COVID: https://www.tradebridge.app/

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by benzesandbetter » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:46 PM UTC

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Full-stack software engineer. I've designed, built, and supported mission-critical applications for clients including Cisco, Eli Lilly, NIH, Stanford School of Medicine, as well as several startups and federal agencies.

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  Location: California
  Remote: Yes (100%)
  Willing to relocate: No thanks
  Technologies: Python, Django, React, Flask, AWS, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, Plone, JS, Linux, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spark, Jupyter, R
  Email: HN2020@davidsiedband.com

http://davidsiedband.com

https://tinyurl.com/siebo-cv2020q3

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

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Post by ssjn » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:50 PM UTC

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: SQL, Python(pandas, numPy, matplotlib), Excel, Tableau, Alteryx

Resume/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/jainsoniya

email: soniyajain (at) protonmail.com

I am a finance professional having 5 years of big4 consulting + industry experience in analyzing financial data and communicating insights to the management. I am transitioning into Data Analytics and looking for data analyst roles preferably in finance domain.